The 2022 Shute Shield season is less than three weeks away and after the longest off-season in history, it’s perhaps more difficult than ever to predict what to expect this season.

To help try to make sense of it all ahead of the opening weekend, we’ve put together five storylines to follow this season.

Can Kneebone and the Crusader Way finally deliver a premiership at Woollahra?

It’s been a very long time between drinks for Eastern Suburbs. That’s something the crowd at Woollahra don’t need to be remindied of.